Effective Instructional Design projects organize and structure their content for the most successful learner experience (Brown & Green, 2020). If you were playing a card game with only two cards in your hand, how you organize the cards might not be significant. However, at some point, eight cards, thirteen cards, or more, your ability to play successfully would depend on how you organized the cards in your hand. Similarly, the more content an Instructional Design project covers, the more important it is that solid organization techniques be employed in its design.

Scope and Sequence are two terms which are commonly utilized in the organization of Instructional Design projects (Browbn & Green, 2020). Scope is the amount of information to be covered, and Sequence is the order in which the information will be presented.

Scope can cover a single course, or it can involve an entire curriculum or course of study (Brown & Green, 2020). Sequence helps to organize instruction into a logical flow. For a histroy course, the sequence of instruction might be from early years to present. In a math course, the sequence of instruction might build upon skills in layers so that students are always learning the prerequisite skills for the next segment of instruction.